Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-09-03
Directors Mathews, Gahr and Harper are
also defendants in the action.

Directors Mathews Gahr and Harper are
also defendants in the action.
Samuel Sparks, a once wealthy man
of Indianapolis, Ind, ended his life with q
dose ofpoison on account Of his loss Of for
tune. His wife tried to keep his suicide
from becoming public and after much dif.
hculty procured a burial permit without
giving the cause of death. The coroner
learned of the matter in time to stop the
ceremonies at the grave, and with the
mourning relatives and friends surrounding
him he conducted an inquest after which
they assisted in the last sad rites
The Maryland Repub lieans held their
state convention at Baltimore and nomina
ted the following ticket: Governor w alter b.
Brooks3 Controller, r. b. Dixon, Attorney
General, Francis Miller; The platform fay
ors an equitable system of taxation and q
revision OF revenue laws and condemns the
federal appointments made in that state as
not based on the civil service law but upon
the will of the Senior United States Senator
lGorman) from the state.
At a meeting of the passenger de-
partment of the Central Traffic Association
at Chicago, it was decided to make q rate
of one fare for the round trip to the Grand
Army encampment at ST. Louis, 1t the
military encampment at Chicago and the
stltutlon at Philadelphia. A resolution was
adopted that harvest excursions should not
be encouraged and an agreement was
reached that no arrangements should be
made for such enterprises.
s. Atthe City Of Mexico, on the 10Th, a
brisk earthquake shock was experienced
about O'Clock a. M, agitating houses and
making the people dizzy The shock was
not severe and was mostfelt in the OUTLYING
portions OF thecity. Thomas B.. Connery,
secretary of the United States legation,
noted the shock at Gas o'clock and about
the same time it was felt sharply at Castle
Chapultepec, where President Diaz and his
family are residing.
The missing boat of the burned
st amship City of Montreal WITH passen-
gers and 6 of the crew was picked up "a
hours after the disaster by the German
vessel Mathllde, which has now arrived at
Falmouth, England, with these people on
board. This accounts for all of the people
on board the City of Montreal when it took
lire and burned in mid-ocean, it's passenger
list being 420 souls.
A large party of colored people from
Atlanta, Ga, visited Decatur Sunday for a
celebration. After drinking freely some of
s them became disorderly and were arrested
This excited others and 2l0 negroes engaged
s IN a riot with the marshal and his posse, in
the course OF which the marshal and one of
his aids was killed and one negro killed
and a good many injured.
A railroad grader named Thomas
Rock was arrested, suspected Of completely
in the murder of the Newer brothers on
Turkey creek Sunday night He confessed,
but said he acted in self-defense. A mob
started out from Friend, Neb., to lynch
Rook, but the officers took the prisoner to
Geneva where he was lodged in Jail.
"Blinky" Morgan, the burglar who
is now in jail at Ravenna, O., for murder
ing Detective Hulligan, and who, while
being captured at Alpena, Mich. a short
time since, fatally shot Sheriff Lynch, has
been indicted in Michigan for robbery of
the postoifice and jeWelry store at Hart.
Oceana county, Mich.
AtChicago, John Streuvy, a barber shot
his wife four times, infiicting fatal wounds.
He had just returned from Europe, and,
1t is alleged, found that she had been living
with another man during his absence. The
murderer was arrested while trying to
crack Jokes with bystanders regarding his
crime.
The first convictions in the Bald
Knobber trials have been secured at
Ozark, John Hills and Matt Shipman being
found guilty of whipping CLAYTON Whit
takef. They were let off with fine of SIS
and costs. Five or six others plead guilty
to whipping Green Walker.
The Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany has decided to reduce the present 4
cent per mile rates to cents, cent rates
to cents and cent rates to cents on all
lines throughout the country controlled by
the Southern q Central Pacific Railway
Companies.
John Stricken, captain Of the Cleye-
land Ball club has been arrested at the in
stance of the Law and Order league for
playing ball on Sunday The first Sunday
game was played on the 21st Stricker's case
will be test of the law preventing such ex-
hibitions. 8 81
1t is understood that the head of the
whisky trust will put SIS, 900 of their bonds
on the Peoria market in afew DAYS. Chi
cage to get $4,000 and Cincinnati and
Louisville proportionate amounts. They
will be foated at 60 cents per dollar
Judge Reeves. of Blooming ton, Ill, i
has admitted to bail in the sum of ST. 900
Timothy Coughlin, the section foreman of
the Toledo, Peoria &Western, who was held
responsible forthe smash-up at Chatsworth,
by which nearly 100 lives were lost.
Unprecedented rains have fallen
North Texas. All the rivers are
over their banks and many washouts are
reported. Eleven persons have been
longed to family named Schmidt.
The Anchor Manufacturing com
pany's cooperage establishment covering 90
acres of ground on the Detroit river burned
Monday morning. Loss $780, 600, Insurance.
$4,000 Five hundred workmen are
thrown out of employment.
Mrs. Nancy jackson FarWell, the
venerable mother Of United State Senator
Charles B. Farwen and John v. Farwell.
died at Sterling, ILL.,, at the age of 80 years
She was born ian Ii, 1897, and was e ma.
tive of New y ork State.
The sale of / ,00O-mile tickets. sus-
pended when the interstate commerce act
went into force has been resumed by the
Pennsy lvania Railroad Company. The
rate will be $50, the same as prevailing be-
fore the suspension.
The banks Of the Galena, Ills. river
for a considerable distance are lined with
dead fish of all sizes and varities. from
which a sickening stencil emanates. Vari-
Gus theories are advanced in explanation of
the phenomenon. SIS
Dressed beef men, in Chicago and
New York, are discussing the possibility Of
a famine in their line of business. Prices
for cattle are so low the dressed beef compa
MES make profit of $40 on each animal